Sambient Larzo
Sambient Larzo
Sixty-four guests. One perfect Thanksgiving. And a fake boyfriend who has to leave before the moon comes up. Marisol Vega has one shot. The Garrow family of Merrow Falls, Vermont, has hired her to cater their 150th Thanksgiving: sixty-four guests, four courses, everything local, and dinner over by six o'clock sharp. If she pulls it off, her tiny catering business is made. Then her ex walks in. Julian Price is the celebrity chef who put five years of her recipes on his menu under his own name, and he's a Garrow cousin's date for the holiday. In a moment of pure panic, Marisol introduces the enormous, quiet man peeling potatoes at the sink as her boyfriend. Rhys Garrow plays along. He's the family's eldest grandson, a carpenter who lives alone in a cabin at the edge of the woods, and he can make a roux like a dream. He also has a secret the whole family has been politely managing for twenty-two years. This year, the full harvest moon rises on Thanksgiving night. Harvest Moon Howl is a warm, funny, big-family holiday romance with: o Fake dating and forced proximity in a very busy kitchen o A fierce chef heroine and a gentle giant werewolf hero o Meddling aunts, nosy kids, a formidable grandmother, and forty-eight pies o A family learning to make room at the table o A closed door and a guaranteed happily-ever-after
She inherited a failing pumpkin farm. It came with a seven-foot scarecrow who wants her gone. Juniper Hale has pulled her last espresso shot. Laid off, broke, and out of options, she drives up to tiny Merrow Falls, Vermont, to sell the pumpkin farm her great-uncle left her. The bank wants $38,500 by the end of November or it takes everything. Her first morning, her FOR SALE sign is in the hedge. Her second, the scarecrow in the middle field climbs down off his pole and informs her it's his hedge. Tobias has guarded Pumpkin & Pine since 1945. He's made of straw, patched wool, and principle. He hates change, city people, and paper cups. He also harvested three thousand pumpkins by hand after her uncle died, and he's never once told anyone why. To save the farm, Juniper opens a pumpkin spice pop-up in his barn, and the grumpiest scarecrow in Vermont has to carry pumpkins for the customers. Between the string lights he hates and the latte he can't drink but can't stop smelling, Juniper starts to wonder what the loneliest thing in the field really wants. Then again, nobody has ever asked him. Pumpkin Spice and the Scarecrow is a cozy, heartwarming fall monster romcom with: o Grumpy sunshine with a scarecrow hero who's never been asked what he wants o A save-the-farm countdown with pumpkins, pie, and Christmas trees o A first kiss in the first snow o A meddling small town and a very judgmental crow o A closed door and a guaranteed happily-ever-after
Somebody is leaving love letters in her library books. She's sure it's the handsome county consultant. She's completely wrong. Lolly is the shy, green, bespectacled Loveland Frog, and for eleven years she has run the Hemlock Hollow Library from behind the shelves. Now the county wants to close it, and she has six weeks to prove it's worth saving. Then anonymous letters start turning up in returned books. They're beautiful, and they notice everything about her. Mateo Reyes has delivered the library's mail three times a week for four years. He eats lunch with her on the steps in the snow. He reads every book she recommends. And he wrote every single one of those letters, and now he has to help her find the man who wrote them. Hopelessly Devoted to the Loveland Frog is a sweet, funny, bookish monster romance with friends to lovers and secret admirer letters, a shy librarian heroine and a devoted mail carrier hero, a small-town fight to save the library, found family in a town full of cryptids, a closed door, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after.
For three years, he's told his mother he has a girlfriend named Jill. His mother arrives Monday. There is no Jill. Until there is. Jack is a jackalope, with tiny antlers, very long ears, and the only coffee cart on the Hemlock Hollow green. His coffee is fresh (mostly). His lie is enormous. Jill Okafor just drove a bright yellow food truck twenty-six hundred miles from Houston, and she's applied for the town's one and only vending permit, the one Jack has held for twelve years. She needs the town's goodwill. He needs a girlfriend by Thanksgiving. One week of fake dating, and may the best coffee win. Jackalope and Jill is a warm, laugh-out-loud holiday monster romcom with fake dating and rivals to lovers, a cinnamon roll hero and a sharp, funny heroine, a meddling mom who knows more than she lets on, small-town Thanksgiving, jollof rice, a very serious coffee war, a closed door, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after.
In 1977 he promised to fly her to Montreal. He didn't show. Fifty years later, he walks into her diner and orders a slice of pie. Mabel Grundy has run the diner on the Hemlock Hollow green for half a century. She makes the best pie in Vermont and the worst coffee on the Eastern Seaboard, and she has never once told anyone why she stopped in the Hollow on her way to Montreal. Everett Vane is a thunderbird, and the storms have followed him all his life. He's the man a twenty-five-year-old waitress was supposed to run away with at dawn, fifty years ago. He never came. Now he's back, with a scar, an explanation, and a ring he's carried for fifty years. Mabel says she's too old for explanations. But sometimes lightning really does strike twice. Lightning Strikes Twice is a tender, funny, later-in-life second-chance monster romance with a love story fifty years in the making, a sharp-tongued heroine in her seventies and a devoted silver-haired hero, a diner, a lot of pie, and a flight over the storm to Montreal, a whole town that finally gets to take care of the woman who took care of them, a closed door, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after.
Ten years ago, he left without a word. Now he's back, and every morning there's something new on her doorstep. Paloma Ruiz runs the flower shop on the corner of Birch Street. Valentine's Day is her busiest week of the year, and she absolutely does not have time for Rafael Cruz. Rafa is a chupacabra, with quills down his spine and eyes made for the dark. Contrary to legend, he's never hurt a goat in his life. A decade ago he vanished the week before Valentine's Day, leaving nothing but frozen roses on her step. He says there was a letter. She never found one. Now he's home, he's staying, and the reason he left is coming back too. This time Paloma won't let him run. My Chupacabra Valentine is an emotional, swoony second-chance monster romance with a lost love letter, a florist heroine and a gentle, goat-loving hero, a Valentine's Day countdown in a small snowy town, a whole community standing up for one of their own, a closed door, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after.
The sunniest nurse in Florida. The grumpiest airboat captain in the Everglades. One hurricane. One very small houseboat. Hallie Calloway is a traveling nurse who loves everybody and has never once unpacked her suitcase. Her new thirteen-week contract takes her to tiny Everglades City, and straight onto the worst-rated airboat tour in the county. Augustus is eight feet tall, covered in russet fur, and a skunk ape. According to every online review, he smells like a dumpster fire. He doesn't like tourists. He definitely doesn't like cheerful nurses who show up every Saturday with muffins. She's the first person who's noticed that he smells like summer rain when he's happy. And when a Category 3 hurricane strands her on his houseboat, the grump and the sunshine are going to have to share a very small space. Stuck in the Swamp with a Skunk Ape is a hilarious, heartfelt monster romcom with grumpy sunshine and forced proximity, a hurricane, a houseboat, and a first kiss in the eye of the storm, spoonbills, manatees, and glowing bay water, a road trip north to the snowy small town of Hemlock Hollow, a closed door, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after.
The new schoolteacher thinks her neighbor is pointing his telescope at her kitchen. He's looking at Jupiter. Her kitchen is in the way. Poppy Hart moved to Hemlock Hollow to teach the little ones, drink a lot of tea, and get over a very bad year. She hasn't looked up at the stars since her mother died. Dov lives in the crooked house across the road. He's very tall, very thin, has a head too big for his body and eyes that glow soft orange in the dark, and he hasn't been seen in daylight since some teenagers screamed at him on a stone wall in 1977. When her class starts turning up on his porch with questions about Saturn, and she starts turning up with them, the shyest monster in town begins to wonder whether there's something worth coming out into the light for. The Demon Down the Road is the tender, joyful finale of the Hemlock Hollow series, with neighbors to lovers and a slow-burn stargazing romance, a grieving heroine and the gentlest hero in town, meteor showers, a blizzard rescue, and a walk into the sunlight, every couple from the series together for one last Longest Night, a closed door, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after.
He's been selling flannel on the town green for a hundred years. She just opened a shop across the street. It's war. Jericho Leeds is the Jersey Devil: horns, wings, hooves, and a grin that could sell snowshoes to a snowman. He's run Leeds Outfitters in tiny Hemlock Hollow, Vermont, for longer than anyone can remember. Life is simple. Life is flannel. Then Delphine Marsh, a laid-off New York designer, rents the old pharmacy right across the green and starts selling flannel of her own. Nicer flannel. With a thread count. And worst of all, she can see exactly what Jer is and isn't impressed in the slightest. Dueling chalkboards. Window wars. One very petty parking space. But when a blizzard traps the two rivals together, Jer starts to suspect that the most dangerous thing in town isn't the monster. It's the woman who isn't afraid of him. The Jersey Devil Wears Flannel is a cozy, laugh-out-loud monster romcom with rival shopkeepers and enemies to lovers, a winged hero who's never owned a shirt that fit (until now), snowed-in forced proximity, a quirky small town full of cryptids, a closed door, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after.
She turns into a giant cat on moonless nights. He's the wildlife biologist sent to find it. And he just rented the cabin next door. Wren Tuckett is Hemlock Hollow's sharp-tongued veterinarian. On the dark of every moon she becomes something else entirely: the big, gold-eyed cat that yowls up on the ridge. Cal Brody is with the U.S. Forest Service, and he's been sent to find out what's leaving those enormous paw prints. He's patient, he's stubborn, and he has spent his whole life trying to prove his late father saw something real. Wren's plan is to charm him, stall him, and send him home with nothing. Then a summer storm washes out the ridge road on the one night she can't hide, and the man with the cameras is sitting outside her door. Wampus Cat Got Your Tongue is a heartfelt shifter romance with forced proximity in a storm-cut cabin, a hidden-identity heroine and a patient, grumpy-sweet hero, a three-legged dog who steals every scene, a small town that protects its own, a closed door, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after.